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Commentary
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Vol. LXI I, No. 3
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JEWISH NEWS
Solidarity as
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Simhat Torah will be occasion for a rally of solidarity with Soviet Jewry 8 p.m. Sunday at Cong. final David. At that time, Detroit Jews
will join their kinsmen in an expression of protest against the exorbitant exit fees being charged to Jews who wish to emigrate to Israel.
Guest speaker will be Prof. Zvi Gitelman, an authority on Soviet Jewry whose book "Jewish Nationality and Soviet Politics," will be
published by Princeton University Press this fall.
On the staff of the University of Michigan, Dr. Gitelman was visiting senior lecturer last year in the Center for Russian and Fast European
Studies at Tel Aviv University. He is a graduate of ihe Russian Institute at Columbia University and has authored many articles on Jews in
the USSR. His talk on Sunday will be "The Jewish National Liberation Movement in the USSR: Past, Present and Future."
The program will include the traditional Torah procession and singing and dancing in keeping with the festive nature of Simhat Torah.
Similarly on Simhat Torah, the Jews of the Soviet Union gather by the thousands outside their synagogues to protlaim their unity with the
Jewish People.
Ruth Gill will lead community singing, and there will be readings and entertainment. The program is under the auspices of the Jew ish
Community Council and Detroit Action Committee on Soviet Jewry. The public is invited to participate.
Weekly Review
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of Jewish Events
Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper
International
Responsibility
to End Terror:
Time for a
Showdown
Editorial
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17515 W. 9 Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 356-8400 $8.00 Per Year; This Issue 25c September 29, 1972
World Action Against Terror Gains
Momentum; Gromyko Pairs Support
With Renewed Condemnation of Israel
'Ransom' Protested at UN
Use of Poison Gas Is Denied
Eban Exonerates W. Germany
NEW YORK (JTA)—A crowd estimated at several thousand
massed outside United Nations headquarters Tuesday morning to
denounce the "ransom" fees imposed on educated Jews wishing
to leave the Soviet Union as Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A.
Gromyko addressed the General Assembly inside. The rally at
Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, organized by the Greater New York
Conference on Soviet Jewry, was addressed by New York politi-
cal and civic leaders.
Spokesmen for the Israel army em-
phatically denied charges that poison
gas was used when Israelis attacked
Fatah positions in Lebanon last week.
The charges emanated from Lebanese
government sources in Beirut. The ac-
cusation was branded part of the lie-
spreading from Arab quarters.
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Israel Foreign Minister Abba Eban
said that the West German government acted correctly in its
handling of the Palestinian terrorists who killed 11 Israeli ath-
letes on Sept. 5. Speaking on CBS-TV's "Face the Nation," Eban
said that although he was not satisfied with the results, the basic
decision of the West German government was correct. lie denied
speculation that Israel will conduct anti-terrorist activities on
foreign soil.
Interpol Backs
Fight on Terror
UNITED NATIONS (JTA) — Israeli
and Arab police leaders apparently con-
curred in an American-sponsored resolu-
tion unanimously approved at the Inter-
pol conference in Frankfurt Tuesday urg-
ing the 110 members of the international
police organization to intensify their ef-
forts to combat "non-political" terrorism.
According to Martin Poliner, director
of law enforcement for the U.S. Treasury
Department, the resolution, adopted 58 - 0,
(Continued on Page 5)
By WILLIAM SAPIIIRE
JTA Staff Writer
UNITED NATIONS (JTA) — The strongest condemnation of the Munich murders to date by a top-rank-
ing Soviet official was delivered by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko in his address before the 27th
session of the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday morning. In the course 'of expounding his country's
views on the Middle East conflict, Gromyko reiterated the Soviet Union's support for "the Arab peoples of
Palestine" but added: "At the same time it is certainly impossible to condone the acts of terrorism committed
by certain elements from among the participants in the Palestinian movement which have led, notably, to the
recent tragic events in Munich. Their criminal actions deal a blow also at the national interests and aspirations of
the Palestinians."
Gromyko's remarks referred to the slaying of 11 Israeli Olympic athletes by Arab terrorists at Munich
Sept. 5. But he also appeared to be referring to Arab terrorist assaults on Israeli diplomats abroad by letter bombs
and attacks on airports and airliners when he said: "The Soviet Union, from positions of principle, opposes acts
of terrorism which disrupt the diplomatic activity of states and their representatives."
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6)
UJA Aims to Meet U.S. Jewry's Obligation to Israel.
USSR Jews: Zuckerman Announces $505.000.000 Goal
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
NEW YORK—New goals in fund raising, mounting responsibilities in meeting
the obligations to Israel and in rescue efforts for Russian Jewry and a recognition
of the emergency duties are leading to unprecedented philanthropic tasks by American
Jewry in the coming year.
The new trends became apparent Tuesday noon when Paul Zuckerman and his
associates in the administrative offices of the United Jewish Appeal met, at the Over-
seas Press Club here, with American Jewish editors to review the existing conditions.
Zuckerman utilized the occasion to announce that while an all time high in fund
raising had been reached in 1972, when $270,000,000 will have been subscribed during
his first year as UJA's general chairman, the minimum goal that must be raised in
1973 is $505,000,000.
Irving Bernstein, UJA executive vice president, associated with
Zuckerman in expressing confidence that American Jewry will re-
spond to the needs in the coming year by subsoribing this vast sum
for obligations in Israel and in providing for the settlement of the
tens of thousands,- of Russian Jews for whom there is hope of attain-
ing exit visas.
While rejecting any suggestion of- yielding to the Russian at-
tempts at imposing a ransom upon the intellectuals who are clamor-
ing to leave the Soviet Union, the UJA leaders expressed the hope
that even the ransom tactics will be abandoned by Russia and that
there will be an ever - increasing number of settlers in Israel from
Russia.
Analyzing the many needs that must be met, thus accounting
for the $505,000,000 goal for 1973, Zuckerman declared:
"The minimum 1973 budget for the Jewish Agency for Israel is
$785,000,000. This is a 'bare needs,' austere budget and has been ar-
rived at after much paring and cutting from essential programs.
• If we cannot raise this sum, our failure will cause distress and human suffering. On
top of the immigration needs, there are still 60,000 families of between seven and
12 members living in one or 1 ki rooms, and much remains to be done.
"The manner in which we respond to the enormous challenges confronting us
this year will determine the quality of thousands of tomorrows for our people in Israel
and for those who look to us throughout the world."
(On the basis of a national goal of 9505,000,000, Detroit, already having attained
the unprecedented sum of $14,000,000 in last year's drive, would he charged with
quota exceeding $20,000,000 in the 1972 Allied Jewish Campaign which already is being
organized under the leadership of Paul Handleman and Samuel Frankel).
Zuckerman reported at Tuesday's conference:
"All early indications point to a 1973 campaign even more sue
cessful than that of 1972, which itself was a reeorithreaker in the
history of the annual UJA drives. Our recent /tome Minister's Mu
sum to Israel inaugurating the 1973 campaign returned On Sept 1
with a record total of pledge,. In the presence of the prime mm.
PAUL ZU CKERMAN
inter, 132 men pledged $14.355.000. compared with the $11.640.250
they had pledged during the Prime Ministe4 - •s Mission in 1972 This
is an impressive start to what is going to be a successful campaign "
Zuckerman announced that he was leaving on Thursday to Join
another group of 300 national Jewish campaign leaders on a mission
to Israel to study conditions there at first hand and to meet with
Israel's government officials. Such "Operation Israel" nussions,
which he had inaugurated four years ago, already are bringing the
results of proving recognition by American Jewry of the duties that
bind communities in the common goal of rescue efforts, he said
Zuckerman had come to the conference on Tuesday from the
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